The sapiential books in the Bible teach us that wisdom and foolishness are opposite paths of life that have nothing in common. The wise man seeks the truth and the correct in all his actions, but the fool, in the best of cases, only seeks his own gain. And this in practical terms means that what is logical for the wise is not logical for the fool, and vice versa.
For this reason, the Book of Proverbs, written by Solomon, seeks to explain to us with a simple teaching or proverb that if we are on the correct path of life, the path of righteousness ("Do to no one what you yourself hate" Tobit 4:15), we must be careful of those who do not follow our path: "The righteous detest the dishonest; the wicked detest the upright" Proverbs 29:27.
There are many cases in the Bible where we see how the fear of God (constancy, firmness, devotion), which is the proper spiritual gift of the sensible people, is diametrically opposed to the arrogance and pride of the fools. Moses was an upright and God-fearing man, and he stood up to Pharaoh for the release of the Israelites from slavery according to the Book of Exodus. The wisdom of God and foolishness met metaphorically in a dialogue of the deaf, what one said made no sense to the other. Pharaoh with a hardened heart rejected any sensible reasoning until the last plague; both, Pharaoh and the prophet Moses rejected each other until finally, Pharaoh drowned in the waters of the Red Sea while trying to kill Moses and the Israelites.
Folly and wisdom are mentalities that translate into paths (righteousness and sin), because in essence foolishness and wisdom are mentalities, ways of perceiving the world around us. In essence, perversion or foolishness is the drive of life toward its inorganic state.
That is why the beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of these two paths, and how we should seek one and reject the other, because one leads to joy and the other to suffering.
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